Past tense of soil
regular verb
The past tense of soil is soiled. The past participle is also soiled.
Forms of soil
| Base form (V1) | soil /sɔɪl/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | soiled /ˈsɔɪld/ |
| Past participle (V3) | soiled /ˈsɔɪld/ |
| Present participle | soiling |
| Third person singular | soils |
Soiled in a sentence
- The child was so scared she soiled herself.
- Was she genuinely concerned that I might have soiled the bathwater by not first washing?2019 August 2, Max Value, Sayonara Japan, Lulu.com, →ISBN. From the entry perv
- He'd bring her dinner on a tray with always a slightly soiled traycloth.1983, Angela Carter, “Sugar Daddy”, in Shaking a Leg, Vintage, published 2013, page 31. From the entry traycloth
- This way no infant is overlooked and left in a wet or soiled diaper for too long.1982, Creating Environments for Infants, United States Department of Health and Human Services, page 49. From the entry diaper check
- Any soiled diaper container should close tightly to prevent dispersal of the ammonia odor that builds up.1977, Lorraine Marshall Burgess, Tom Bottomley, The Garden Maker's Answer Book: A Compendium of Useful Information, in Question and Answer…. From the entry diaper bucket
Meaning of soil
- noun A mixture of mineral particles and organic material, used to support plant growth.
- noun The unconsolidated mineral or organic material on the immediate surface of the earth that serves as a natural medium for the growth of land plants.
- noun The unconsolidated mineral or organic matter on the surface of the earth that has been subjected to and shows effects of genetic and environmental factors of: climate (including water and temperature effects), and macro- and microorganisms, conditioned by relief, acting on parent material over a period of time. A product-soil differs from the material from which it is derived in many physical, chemical, biological, and morphological properties and characteristics.
Questions about the past tense of soil
- What is the past tense of soil?
- The past tense of soil is soiled.
- What is the past participle of soil?
- The past participle of soil is soiled.
- Is soil a regular or irregular verb?
- Soil is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: soil (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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